Every day, more than 63,000 Navy Medicine personnel are operating forward around the world, providing agile and rapid health care support to the Navy and Marine Corps. Saving lives wherever our forces operate is what we do, be it above the sea, on the sea, below the sea or on the battlefield. The following photos depict important events and our medical professionals at work during April 2018.
Topics: USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), blood donation, Hospital Corps, Continuing Promise, Guatemala,...
Every day, more than 63,000 Navy Medicine personnel are operating forward around the world, providing agile and rapid health care support to the Navy and Marine Corps. Saving lives wherever our forces operate is what we do, be it above the sea, on the sea, below the sea or on the battlefield. The following photos depict important events and our medical professionals at work during May 2018.
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, Pacific Partnership, humanitarian assistance, USNS Mercy (T-AH 19),...
By Cmdr. Connie Scott, MSC, Department Head, Health Promotion and Wellness, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center
Topics: medical records, preventive medicine, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Capt. Eric R. Hoffman, officer in charge, Navy Entomology Center of Excellence, and chairman of Armed Forces Pest Management Board. "With the U.S. military prepared to deploy anywhere in the world in support of humanitarian, disaster relief and operational missions, discovering innovative solutions to control blood feeding insects that carry human disease is key to success."
Topics: Navy Entomology Center of Excellence, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy Surgeon General.
Topic: Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy surgeon general, and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. "The Dental Corps was established 102 years ago. On August 22, the Dental Corps will celebrate a birthday, and I want to take a moment to recognize the men and women who make up their corps."
Topics: Dental Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Lt. David Groves, Naval Hospital Guam Keeping a machine running at optimal performance requires ongoing maintenance. The human body is no different. Often times the body has been severely injured or to the point that it requires rehabilitation to work properly. This is where physical therapy (PT) steps in. PT focuses on restoring and optimizing human functional mobility. As a physical therapist (PT) at Naval Hospital Guam, I help restore function or movement, where the ability has been lost,...
Topics: NH Guam, physical therapy, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Lt. Cmdr. Lori Christensen, environmental health officer, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. "Regina (the family doc) and me are heading up to the remote Choiseul Island to conduct some training for the women’s council there on a variety of health and medical topics."
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, humanitarian assistance, Pacific Partnership, Solomon Islands
By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jacquelyn D. Childs The nature of my job as a mass communication specialist allows me the opportunity to get involved in many different associations and activities around the command. One of the first events I had the chance to see when I arrived at Navy Medicine Education and Training Command (NMETC) on Joint Base San Antonio – Fort Sam Houston, Texas, was the staff and students at the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) gathering in a...
Topics: Navy Medicine Training Support Center, suicide, Navy Medicine Live blog
By Brian Zalewski and Richard Miltenberger, Naval Medical Center San Diego Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care. "IDEO™ (Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis). It is the latest advancement in orthotics, or “bracing” technology for the lower leg. Many of our wounded service members suffer a condition called limb salvage, where the leg has been severely wounded, but our skilled surgeons were able to save the leg from amputation. Depending on severity and mechanism of...
Topics: NMC San Diego, prosthetics, orthotics, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Lt. Dustin Harrison, Research Department, Naval Medical Research Unit 2 Pacific, Pearl Harbor Hawaii. "NAMRU-2, the oldest of the Navy’s overseas research labs, conducts infectious disease research, surveillance, and outbreak response in the PACOM AOR which includes the islands from Hawaii to South East and East Asia, and dengue fever is a focus of our research. We support operational and deployed U. S. Forces to reduce and eliminate diseases which can be mission abortive. We are...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, NEPMU-6, dengue, NAMRU-2
By Lt. Cmdr. John M. Burger, officer in charge, 1st Marine Regiment, Operational Stress Control and Readiness (OSCAR) program As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were unfolding, Headquarters Marine Corps and the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery agreed to embed active duty mental health providers and corpsmen within deployed Marine Corps infantry units. This strategy had been implemented at different times since World War I with clear recognition of its unique ability to conserve and...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, psychology, U.S. Marine Corps
By Larry A. Taylor, command safety manager, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center. "As command safety manager and safety and occupational health specialist at the NMCPHC, I respond to a variety of safety concerns, near misses and mishaps, many of which can be avoided if the proper precautions are taken. Unsafe work environments and high-risk operations can lead to incidents, injuries and missed work days. Even minor accidents can jeopardize productivity and mission-readiness; injuries...
Topics: Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, occupational health, Navy Medicine Live Blog
Cmdr. David Leal, head, Biomaterial and Environmental Surveillance Team, Naval Medical Research Unit- San Antonio. "Our group, at Naval Medical Research Unit in San Antonio, conducts research, development, testing and evaluation of biomaterials used in medicine and dentistry. As the lead agent for mercury abatement in naval dental treatment facilities, we are responsible for the development and testing of systems and technologies that minimize the environmental impact and occupational...
Topics: NAMRU-SA, dentistry, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery At 0900 on February 19 th , 1945, the first assault waves from the 4 th and 5 th Marine Divisions hit the beaches of Iwo Jima. [i] Embedded within these units were corpsmen like Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Stanley Dabrowski, of New Britain, Conn., who remembered, the tremendous noise, concussion of small arms fire, explosions of artillery and sounds of shells. “As we were coming into the beach we were...
Topics: history of medicine, World War II, Japan, Hospital Corps, US Marines, Navy Medicine Live blog
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6) is the U.S. Navy’s first stand-alone research facility in South America, and is one of six overseas research laboratories operated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). NAMRU-6 was initially established in Lima, Peru in 1983, as the Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment (NAMRID) to investigate infectious diseases Today, NAMRU-6 research activates focus on applied research to evaluate and test new vaccines, prevention strategies,...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, Peru, NAMRU-6, vaccination, bacteriology, entomology, parasitology,...
By Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery On behalf of the entire Navy Medicine family, it is my honor to congratulate our Navy Medical Service Corps as they celebrate 69 years of honoring the trust placed in our hands by our nation.
Topics: Medical Service Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Danielle M. Bolton, Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune Public Affairs Traumatic brain injuries have come to the forefront of service members minds as medical facilities look for innovative ways to treat what they cannot see. The Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, Intrepid Spirit Concussion Recovery Center, whose mission is to provide state of the art precision brain injury recovery medical care to operational forces with a primary focus of rapid return to unrestricted duty, is leading the way in this...
Topics: NH Camp Lejeune, Navy Medicine Live Blog, TBI, neurology, military medicine
By Lt. Cmdr. Dea L. Brueggemeyer, DC, Administrative Fellow to chief, Navy Dental Corps, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. "Here are some tips for keeping your teeth healthy at Halloween and year round. After all, the candy bowl isn’t just out at Halloween you know!"
Topics: dentistry, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Cmdr. Michail Charissis, director of psychological health, Bureau of Navy Medicine and Surgery As a leader in mental health awareness, treatment, and research, Navy Medicine is instrumental in the development of advances that are improving the lives of Sailors, Marines, their families and retirees who suffer from a mental health condition. Navy Medicine providers understand the demanding environment of military life and experiences of combat, during which many Sailors and Marines experience...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, psychology
By Capt. Richard L. Haberberger, Jr., commanding officer, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Md.. "We will be celebrating U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3’s (NAMRU-3) 65th anniversary Oct. 20 in Cairo, Egypt with a host of guest speakers from Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), the Egyptian Ministry of Health, and the World Health Organization. NAMRU-3 is the oldest of the Navy’s labs outside the United States, recognized in 1942 when the U.S. Typhus Commission...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, NAMRU-3, Egypt, U.S. Typhus Commission
Editor’s Note: Vice Adm. Michael Cowan was only thirty days into his tenure as Surgeon General of the Navy when the attacks on September 11th took place. Instantly, the world had changed and Navy Medicine’s course would forever be altered to meet the new challenges ahead. In a recent oral history session with the BUMED History Office, Vice Adm. Cowan recalled those first days after September 11th, and discussed deploying USNS Comfort to New York City where it served as a sanctuary for...
Topics: September 11 terrorist attacks, oral history, Navy Medicine Live Blog, history of medicine
By Lt. Ana Soper, Ph.D, neuropsychologist, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island.
Topics: neuropsychology, NH Beaufort, US Marine Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy surgeon general, and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Topics: Medical Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By: Hospitalman (SW) Cassandra Bonsall Hospitalman Bonsall is a Labor and Delivery Corpsman stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth I have been serving in the U.S. Navy for just over two years now. I have already learned many life lessons and have many stories to tell, and I am continuing to learn and be shaped into the Sailor I want to be. One of the most memorable and life-changing events in my life was the 2019 Comfort Deployment, a humanitarian mission aboard the USNS Comfort to...
Topics: USNS Comfort (TAH-19), Navy Medicine Live blog, hospital ship, humanitarian assistance, Hospital...
"So, in the spirit of the new year, we asked a few sailors at Surface Warfare Medical Institute aboard the Naval Medical Center San Diego campus, about what makes them optimistic about their future. From promotions to deployments and increasing opportunities for women in the military, these resilient sailors have a lot to be optimistic about as they sail into 2015."
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, Naval Center for Combat & Operational Stress Control
By Lt. Libby Peachey, mental health department psychology staff and suicide prevention coordinator, Naval Hospital Jacksonville. "In recognition of Suicide Awareness Month, I want to underscore the importance and raise awareness of suicide, the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S.—according to Centers for Disease Control."
Topics: suicide, mental health, NH Jacksonville, Navy Medicine Live Blog, psychology
"The event, sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Committee, introduces Paralympics and adaptive sports such as archery, basketball, biathlon, cycling, rowing, sitting volleyball, strength and conditioning, swimming and track and field to wounded, ill and injured (WII) service members."
Topics: Warrior Games, physical therapy, rehabilitation, sports, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Cmdr. H. A. Tetteh, MD, MBA, FACS, FACHE, BUMED Physician Health Policy Adviser. "Where were you? On September 11, 2001, President George Bush admonished, “None of us will ever forget this day.” On that clear morning in New York City I watched in real time, from the roof of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, as a second plane collided with the South Tower of the World Trade Center."
Topics: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman (SW/AW/FMF) Scott Thrasher, Hospital Corps Planner, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgey (BUMED). "As the flu season rapidly approaches, I wanted to take a moment and remind all Sailors, Marines, and family members of their responsibility to receive the annual vaccination that will soon be available. As a preventive medicine technician, well schooled in all immunization and vaccination programs, I can speak confidently about the safety of this...
Topics: influenza, vaccination, Hospital Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy surgeon general, and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. "I would like to take a moment to recognize the incredible work and sacrifice all of you make in support of the Navy Medicine mission."
Topic: Navy Medicine Live Blog
"Now in its seventh year, Pacific Partnership is a U.S. Navy Medicine, U.S. Pacific Fleet and the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command humanitarian and civic assistance mission aboard the USNS Mercy designed to build stronger relationships and disaster response capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region.:
Topics: USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), Pacific Partnership, Vietnam, hospital ship, humanitarian assistance, Navy...
By Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, commander, Navy Medicine Education and Training Command and director, Navy Nurse Corps. "Navy Medicine education and training spans the world and encompasses operational medicine, enlisted medical training, professional development and career-long growth and education opportunities. The exceptional men and women at the many organizations and facilities are the foundation of the Navy Medicine education and training enterprise."
Topics: Navy Medicine Education and Training Command, Navy Medicine Live Blog
Every day, more than 63,000 Navy Medicine personnel are operating forward around the world, providing agile, rapid health care support to the Navy and Marine Corps. Ensuring lives are saved wherever our forces operate is what we do, be it above the sea, on the sea, below the sea or on the battlefield. The following photos depict our medical professionals at work during March 2017.
Topics: Hospital Corps, Navy Medicine Live blog, Dosimetry Center, humanitarian assistance, Operation...
By Cmdr. Carrie Kennedy, Neuropsychologist/Aerospace Experimental Psychologist, Marine Corps Embassy Security Group. "Navy neuropsychology has undergone massive changes in the past ten years. From a community that regularly maintained only three to four active duty neuropsychologists at a time to one in which we haven’t been able to procure and grow enough, we have been a much-needed clinical specialty in order to meet the needs of the warfighter."
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, neuropsychology, US Marine Corps, neurology, military medicine
By Capt. Jonathan M. Stahl, DC, Naval Medical Research Unit-San Antonio One goal of NAMRU-SA’s current research efforts is to determine the clinical suitability of antibiotic impregnated cranial implants by evaluating their antimicrobial and mechanical properties. In our current study, the antimicrobial effectiveness of varying classes of antibiotics are being evaluated against microbial pathogens including multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria such methicillin-resistant Streptococcus...
Topics: NAMRU-SA, antibiotics, prosthetics, Dental Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Tami Begasse, Naval Hospital Jacksonville Public Affairs. “Obesity is a chronic, relapsing medical condition that eventually kills,” said Naval Hospital Jacksonville Public Health Director, Capt. Joe McQuade. Obesity is the leading cause of premature death in the United States – surpassing smoking. Helping people understand the associated risks and the available resources to help reverse this trend is paramount to staff at Naval Hospital Jacksonville." [Part 3 appears not to have...
Topics: obesity, nutrition, NH Jacksonville, Navy Medicine Live Blog
Concepcion is serving as the Basic Life support (BLS) program manager at Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB), also supporting other commands throughout the Pacific Northwest. Prior to serving at NHB, Concepcion has served in medical records, admissions and discharge, as an overseas screening coordinator, fleet liaison, and platoon corpsman. Navy Medicine has taken her to several countries in East Asia, Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and multiple places across the United States. When asked what has been her...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, military medicine, Hospital Corps, NH Bremerton
On behalf of the Navy Medicine family, congratulations to the men and women of our Navy Nurse Corps on your 110th anniversary.
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, Nurse Corps
By Cmdr. Arlene Saitzyk, Naval Aerospace Medical Institute. "My journey to become a Navy Psychologist began at Michigan State University where I specialized in Child and Family Clinical Psychology..."
Topics: Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, psychology, Navy Medicine Live Blog
Before even graduating dental school, getting the chance to be a dental officer aboard a hospital ship for a humanitarian mission was on my bucket list. As a young lieutenant, I was nothing short of euphoric when I learned I was given the opportunity to fill Mercy’s pediatric dentistry billet during Pacific Partnership 2015 (PP15). On the ship, the dental team got to work immediately. Underway we focused on getting ready for community health engagements (CHE) and subject matter expert...
Topics: humanitarian assistance, dentistry, pediatrics, USNS Mercy (T AH-15), hospital ship, Philippines,...
Today, I work at the Naval Postgraduate Dental School (NPDS), the only Department of Defense-centralized site for postgraduate dental education. It conducts post-doctoral dental and board-eligible training in eight specialties, as well as the Maxillofacial Prosthetics Technician C-school. As supervisor of the comprehensive dentistry department, I assist in the management of 16 enlisted military and civilian personnel to support 18 staff and resident dental officers. As a dental assistant and...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, Hospital Corps, Presidential medicine, Naval Postgraduate Dental School
By Douglas H. Stutz, Naval Hospital Bremerton Public Affairs.
Topics: smoking, NH Bremerton, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Cmdr. Dixie Aune, WHNP, Specialty Leader for WHNP/CNM, Naval Hospital Beaufort. "May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention month, and it’s important to know that as women age, we are at increased risk of osteoporosis (brittle bones). In fact, about one in two women over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis."
Topics: osteoporosis, NH Beaufort, women's health, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Douglas H Stutz, Naval Hospital Bremerton Public Affairs When a Navy chaplain is assigned to a military treatment facility such as Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB), their broad range of duties helps the overall mission of Navy Medicine to enable readiness, wellness and patient-centered care of Sailors, Marines, their families and all others entrusted in their care. Along with ecumenical duties, they also handle such responsibilities as counseling individuals seeking guidance and spiritual...
Topics: NH Bremerton, psychology, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Hospitalman Teresa Alexandria Perkins, Naval Hospital Bremerton "I’m a radiologic technologist and proud to be Naval Hospital Bremerton’s 2014 Blue Jacket of the Year. It’s an honor to represent my leadership and the hospital."
Topics: radiology, hospital corps, NH Bremerton, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Lt. j.g. Richelle Magalhaes, U.S. Naval Hospital Guam, Preventive Medicine Dept.
Topics: NH Guam, tuberculosis, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Lt. Cmdr. Michael Mercado, MC, USN U.S. Naval Hospital Guam; interview by Joshua Wick, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs. Editor’s note: Several Navy Medicine personnel, medical treatment facilities (MTFs), units and programs were recognized this year by the Military Health System (MHS) awards program in February. The MHS awards aims to showcase the medical programs and service members who provide and support our medical forces. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award for...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, NH Guam, Family Medicine
Force Master Chief Terry J. Prince. Every year in June, the United States recognizes Men’s Health Month to heighten awareness of preventable health issues commonly found in men and encourage early detection and treatment of disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the top five leading causes of death among men include heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury or accidents, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke. Most of these conditions are preventable or treatable...
Topic: Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Rear Adm. Elaine Wagner, director, Health Care Operations, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. ...we explored how Naval Medical Center San Diego is already applying big data to patient modeling, to better understand the operational impact of complex information changes on care delivery, coordinated planning across facilities, and the identification and recapture of priority patients over a three-year time span.
Topics: Patient Care, Risk Factors, Navy Medicine Live Blog
